I decided to give the Qatar v Ecuador game a skip because of analysis risk grew significantly with all the corruption rumours.

Here we have Senegal, who have now lost Sadie Mane definitely from this tournament, and he is the most important player to his team in the World Cup. Not only as a goal scorer, but as passer, as a key to all attacking play, but especially as a talisman, key figure, almost godlike in his country and his absence can not be emphasized too much.

Senegal did win the African Nations Cup, and they are not a bad team as such, but now they have to rely only on the defense. Let us look at the players available:

Even without Mane they are worth 230 million euro on transfer market value. The most valuable players being Chelsea players keeper Mendy and centreback Koulibaly. Leipzig cb Diallo as an excellent player too, as well midfielders Guye from Marseille and Guye from Everton. I guess you see where I am heading, the wingers and attacking players are not especially good, the biggest names being Watford's Sarr and Villarreal's Jackson who is not even a starter in Spain. Also the full-backs Ballo-Toure from AC Milan and Sabaly come from big clubs, but not with too many minutes and responsibility.

Holland are one of the possible back horses in this competition. Money-wise they have 3 times the value of Senegal in their playing squad, but the key figure really is coach Louis Van Gaal who has brought Holland back to the absolute top in the world. Holland have lost 1 game from their last 20, v Czechs in the Euro play-offs. Recently they have for example beaten Belgium twice, Norway, Denmark, Turkey, Wales.. all at least decent teams, and with a style!

If Senegal had a strong looking defense the same can be said of Holland, but they have so much depth that the biggest problem of Van Gaal is to decide who to play and who to bench, they have for example 5 world-class centrebacks and names like Matthias de Ligt might start the tournament from the bench! They will be well covered also in the midfield with Barcelona's Frenkie de Jong, who is likely to shine is tournament when given a big role. Attacking-wise there is speed, skill, strength, height and size available for different situations with Depay, de Jong, Dumfries, Simon, Frimpong and Bergwin.. you name it, they have it!

There is one big problematic position in the team though, and it might be decisive when talking about reaching final stages.

The keepers! All three are playing in the Dutch league, and now it looks possible that 39 year old Ajax keeper Pasveer, who made his full international debut this September! I do not think Senegal will create enough to scare him, but against the better teams in the future this is a problematic area.

Good luck friends, enjoy the games!

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我决定跳过卡塔尔对厄瓜多尔的比赛，因为所有的腐败传闻都增加了分析风险。

这是塞内加尔队，他们在本届比赛中失去了赛迪·马内，他是世界杯上对球队最重要的球员。他不仅是一个进球者，也是一个传球者，是所有进攻的关键，尤其是作为一个护身符，关键人物，在他的国家几乎像神一样，他的缺席不能被过分强调。

塞内加尔确实赢得了非洲国家杯，他们本身也不是一支糟糕的球队，但现在他们只能依靠防守了。让我们看看可供选择的玩家:

即使没有马内，他们的转会市场价值也有2.3亿欧元。最有价值的球员是切尔西的门将门迪和中后卫库利巴利。莱比锡中卫迪亚洛也是一名出色的球员，还有来自马赛的中场古耶和来自埃弗顿的古耶。我想你知道我的方向，边锋和进攻球员都不是特别好，最出名的是沃特福德的萨尔和比利亚雷亚尔的杰克逊，他在西班牙甚至都不是首发。还有来自AC米兰的边后卫巴洛-图雷和来自豪门的萨巴利，但都没有太多的上场时间和责任。

荷兰队是本届比赛中最有可能获胜的球队之一。在金钱方面，他们的球员是塞内加尔的3倍，但真正的关键人物是教练路易斯·范加尔，他把荷兰带回了绝对的世界顶级。荷兰在最近的20场比赛中输给了捷克。例如，最近他们两次击败了比利时、挪威、丹麦、土耳其、威尔士…至少都是不错的球队，而且有风格!

如果说塞内加尔拥有一个看起来很强大的防线，那么荷兰也可以这么说，但他们的深度太大了，范加尔最大的问题是决定谁踢谁替补，例如，他们有5个世界级的中卫，像马蒂亚斯·德莱特这样的名字可能会从替补席开始比赛!他们也将在中场得到很好的覆盖，巴萨的德容，他很可能在比赛中发挥重要作用。进攻方面，德佩、德容、邓弗里斯、西蒙、弗林蓬和伯格温在不同情况下都有速度、技巧、力量、身高和身材。你能想到的，他们都有!

在球队中有一个很大的问题位置，当谈到进入最后阶段时，它可能是决定性的。

看守的人!这三个人都在荷兰联赛效力，现在看来，39岁的阿贾克斯门将帕斯维尔很有可能在今年9月完成了他的国家队首秀!我不认为塞内加尔会创造足够的机会吓到他，但是在未来面对更好的球队时，这是一个有问题的领域。